The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-03-23


now planting is essentially commercla
speculation. The cash for hands, montl
BY month, successful or not, must bt
paid in full, with no crop, and nothing
to pay with, there being no reserved
capital This brings things to = halt a
once. One who cannot control capita
on legitimate basis had as we'll under
take to work mine, or run factory OF
!. line of ocean steamers on Il twelve
months credit, as TO plant successfully
a merchant with little or no capital, but
good business reputation, can get
goods on such time as enables him tc
carry on business with sales to meet liz
credits. He is part of q system ot
credits, and does a legitimate business
with it. There is no Legitimate system
of credit in planting. The length ot
tine before he can realize and the IN
certainty attending all its operations
and results, put the planter out OF the
pale of commercial credit, which means
getting money upon the same terms as
other men doing business with him.
Unless lie does that, the rest goes foI
nothing. Farmers may meet and re-
solve, and all the rest-may go TO the
Legislature, and, il you choose, ';make
Rome howl" but unless that difficulty
is removed they are out OF the ring.
''Paul may plant, and Apoilns may
water" but there IS no increase at per
cent q month.
The tariff ana State taxation nave in a
sense nothing to do with this desperate
condition of things. As our old friend
Don Quixotte used to say to his trusty
squire: ''Ihese are but tarts and cheese
cakes friend Sancho, to that grim giant
over von6er; and our giant IS no wind
mill either.
Fair priced money wyuld even now
come too late TO the most who have been
planting cotton since the war. Like the
succor sent to the famishing Irish in
1918, many We're too far gone, though
still alive and conscious, to be helped by
it; and the most terrible duty imposed
upon the commissioners who distributed
the provisions, was TO pass by those
whose features indicated so hopeless q
condition that It did not warrant giving
them, though craving for it, that relief
which would save others not so far gone.
So, again, We say the thing has gone
on long enough, and gone so far that,
really, the best for the country at large
would be for the capitalists who over
shadow the land with this, III the aggre-
gate, enormous debt to pass some sort
Of an Irish encountered estate bill,
realize, take possession of all estates, "
so perpetUaliy burdened, and Pat them
fairly atloat with the means they and no
one else have, aid 50 take a burden from
the shoulders Of that unfortunate class
Of men who undertake to pl&nt cotton
on iens-&nl then What is going to
happen viii happen, and what that IS
would not, we will confess, be difficult
to say. Cotton viii be made, no fear.
The middle and upper country OF South
Carolina is as good a region to make 1t
IN as any in the cotton belt. take it all
round. The labor is now well IN hand
and only requires the knowledge Of the
freedman'S ways and requirements, with
the money to meet them, and expert
ence has taught this to the men wko
have been dealing with them Of late
years to Go good work. This middle
and upper country of South Carolina
has the climate, soil and wealth, lying
under the shelter Of the Blue Ridge on
the North and West, with the warm cur
rent OF the Gulf Stream bathing its
Eastern shore, it is veritab!e garden
for those who are able to avail them
selves CT its advantages, but not upon
the system now pursued. That IS
doomed, and no hand can save it. The
sooner it goes the better. Clear the
wreck and let the strongest hold the
ground. Out OF ':chaos'' comes 'scos-
mas" Bad as the best may be, nothing
IS worse than holding on. The dry rot
permeates the whole system, and can
have but one ending. The Dutch, when
they had the monopoly OF the East
India trade, burned the sorplusaSe OF
their spices to keep the market at pay
ing standard. Let those who are able
to plant cotton legitimately do 50. Let
them take example from the Dutch "a
wise people, reduce the cotton crop and
handle more money from the small crop
than the large one, to say nothing OF in
cidental benefits coming from cuitivatins
provisions. Make half crop Of cotton
one year, and 1t viii give healthy tone
to the market for an indefinite period.
WATEREE.
Camden, S. c.
Pathetic. Incident ut Sea.